Bizarre Patents
A beach chair which can be adapted for a woman who is pregnant and wishes to sunbathe in the prone position.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7278532 | Conveying apparatus An apparatus for conveying articles includes a transmission element, a plurality of element guides around which the transmission element extends, a drive motor for moving the transmission element, a plurality of article carriages operatively connected to the transmi... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7198136 | Elevator device for a multi-sky-lobby system An elevator system is provided with multiple sky lobbies to reduce the space required for elevator shafts and the space required for the entire elevator system, as well as the required elevator speed and motor capacity. Sky lobbies Ls1–Lsx | 04/03/2007 |
| 6533106 | Conveyor A conveyor transports lightweight articles with a high degree of adaptability to the space it can occupy and the path along which the conveyor units can travel. The track of the conveyor has curving track sections connecting straight track sections having... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6119880 | Shelf carousel The shelf carousel comprises an upright support frame, guide tracks arranged on the support frame, shelves arranged for movement along the guide tracks, a shelf stabilizer track fixed adjacent the top end of the guide tracks, a shelf stabilizing member fi... | 09/19/2000 |
| 5642604 | Spacing conveyor mechanism A spacing conveyor mechanism (10) for conveying cans (11) along an article feed path (12) in a packaging machine for forming the cans into groups of cans is disclosed. The spacing conveyor mechanism has a pair of spaced drive sprockets (15) positioned alo... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5387260 | Handling-switching machine with device for keeping conveyor tables in a horizontal position This invention proposes a handling-switching apparatus in which the pieces to be handled are placed on conveyor tables constituted by rotating carpets that are inclined and set to rotation to unload the conveyed piece. The path, loop shaped, develops on a... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5341917 | Timed retention conveying apparatus An apparatus, using rigid surfaces or trays, to convey indexed items through a controlled environment when the items require a specific retention time within the controlled environment and to attain the desired retention time by traversing back and forth ... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5273392 | Automated work center and method This invention relates to an automated work center for use in materials handling operations. The work center includes a randomly accessible vertically moving temporary storage queue 11 for receiving containers 25 that hold material goods. A fixed loading ... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5230421 | Means for storing and conveying objects, installation arrangement for the means and method for operation in a closed container The storage arrangement for operation in an autoclave with horizontal cylinder (60) includes a conveyor chain (10), which is moved on both sides back and forth over guide sprocket wheels. Shelves (1) are conveyed with the conveyor chain (10). The parallel... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5060779 | Moving ramp Moving ramp intended e.g. for transportation of people, comprising plates (10) supported by wheels, which are guided for movement at an upper level to form the loaded part of the moving ramp, and at a lower level which is substantially parallel with the u... | 10/29/1991 |
| 4986411 | Continuous motion vertical conveyor A continuous vertical conveyor having a horizontal infeed and a vertically displaced horizontal outfeed and a horizontal platform continuously moving between the infeed and outfeed while supported on staggered transport chains so as to remain horizontal e... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4813752 | Delivery device This invention concerns a delivery device for the controlled delivery of a multitude of electrical components for assisting in the stuffing of switching PCBs, with the device including a number of elongate magazines each of which can accommodate several b... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4475462 | Tiltable hanger apparatus Herein disclosed is a tiltable hanger apparatus including an overhead track assembly and a work-carrying assembly movable below and along the overhead track assembly. The work-carrying assembly is composed of a main carrier frame suspended from the overhe... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4314647 | Storage and display elevator The storage and display elevator includes a series of movable shelves or platforms suspended from a pair of continuous chains, with the chains extending about upper and lower pairs of sprocket wheels. At least one upper guide sprocket is rotatably support... | 02/09/1982 |
| 4044649 | Conveyor mechanism A conveyor mechanism comprises a sprocket having a plurality of concave cutouts and receiving an endless chain of elements, each element having a convex surface, each of said cutouts having a supplemental indexing cutout associated therewith and each of s... | 08/30/1977 |
| 4004654 | Elevator structure supporting apparatus This invention provides a continuous flow elevator system wherein a plurality of cabs or cars are contained in a single shaft with means for switching the cabs from a set of continuous flow rails to a set of alternate rails associated therewith. There is ... | 01/25/1977 |
